Media Category: Charles-Marchant-Stevenson

Matt Leach advising on Charles Marchant Stevenson paintings (2009). Shown here: The Gates of Hell (1994). Photo: CG Blick

La Puerta del Infierno (The Gates of Hell), Museo Soumaya, Mexico City. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

The Gates of Hell (Porte d’Enfer) at the Rodin Museum, Hotel Biron, Paris, is one of the original three bronze casts. The other two originals are Rodin Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. and the National Museum of Western Art, Ueno Park, Tokyo.

Rodin’s Gates of Hell, flanked by the figures of Adam and Eve, at the B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. The Rodin Sculpture Garden is open at all hours, with lighting for nighttime viewing.

Detail from the Gates of Hell, Rodin Museum, Hotel Biron, Paris.

Auguste Rodin before his Gates of Hell.

The Thinker, detail from the Gates of Hell, Rodin Museum, Hotel Biron, Paris. Photo: courtesy of Jean-Pierre Dalbéra, Wikimedia Commons.

Originally all the Wallace Fountains in Paris were painted dark green, but recently there have been some departures. This one is on rue Jean-Anouilh, Paris 75013. Photo: Elsenyor, Wikimedia Commons.

The colonnade model Wallace Fountain is the most recent of the models; of the thirty made, only two remain, this one on rue de Rémusat, at rue de Mirabeau, Paris, 16th arrondisement.

Large Wallace Fountain, in front of Shakespeare & Co. at 37 rue de la Bûcherie, 5th arrondisement, Paris.